Parallel and selective trapping in a patterned plasmonic landscape

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 477-480

  Righini, Maurizio ^a   Zelenina, Anna S ^a   Girard, Christian ^b   Quidant, Romain ^a,c  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b CEMES CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVANESCENT FIELDS; PLASMONICS; SURFACE PLASMONS;

GLASS SURFACES; INCIDENT POWER; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; LASER INTENSITIES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

EID: 34547351586     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys624     Document Type: Article

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